Tribes of the Eastern Himalayas

The present treatise is a comprehensively edited highly illuminating fourteen contributions based on empirical research findings on the tribes of the Eastern Himalayas by leading social scientists of India. The articles included in this volume covers a wide canvass. Bringing together the empirical information of researches from a variety of disciplines, the coverage of topics and their discussion relate to studies on ethnicity and revivalism, a acculturation, eco-cultural adaptation, political system, development process, perception and conception of health and illness, morbidity pattern, demographic issues, religion and world view besides many others. The book is expected to command attention from a wide range of allied academic disciplines, and will be of extremely useful to scholars and academicians who are interested in tribal studies ; as well as administrators, planners, policy makers ; voluntary agencies and indeed anyone with concern about tribal people of the Eastern Himalayas. The book merits to be prescribed as a reference book for students of anthropology and sociology.